74 Modern Dogs. 



hounds have separate homes with the supporters of 

 the hunt, and are regularly got together each morn- 

 ing a hunt is to take place. This is as a rule not 

 much trouble, for, hearing a blast or two of their 

 huntsman's horn, here and there hounds make their 

 way to their master, very much on the same principal 

 that the '' bugle call " rouses the soldier from his bed 

 and draws him to the place of muster. Packs of 

 this kind are, as a rule, not so extensive as our lead- 

 ing ones, which repose in kennels dry and airy, and 

 arranged on the most modern principles. One of 

 the oldest packs in the country is the *' trencher fed " 

 Staintondale, located between Whitby and Filey in 

 Yorkshire. Until recently this pack had, for upwards 

 of 200 years, been hunted by a farmer and supported 

 by farmers. Now the master is a Scarborough 

 gentleman, but he works his hounds on the same old 

 lines his predecessors had done before him. At the 

 close of the day there are no kennels in which to 

 house the pack, so each hound has to make its way 

 home as it best can ; and, says a recent correspondent, 

 after the day's work is over, '' As we reach different 

 points along the road, first one hound and then 

 another, at a word or sign from the huntsman, leaves 

 us, and, leaping a gate or stile, trots leisurely to its 

 home across the fields, with many a pause and 

 backward glance at the old huntsman and the 



